Bottle-stopper



J. KLEE. Bottle'Stopper.

Patented Aug. 17,1880.

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JOHN KLEE, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,230, dated August 17, 1880.

Application led October 13, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN KLEE, of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Stoppers; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in bottle-Stoppers of that class which are suspended within the neck or throat of the bottle, and which are held in place by being drawn up into said neck and by the expansive force of the contents.

The novelty of my invention consists in the combination, with aninternal bottle-stopper, of the grasping-loop made of acontinuous piece of wire with rigidly-fastened ends and provided with lateral curves or shoulders near its upper end, as will be herewith set forth and specilically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view of a bottle in elevation, showing the application of my improved stopper drawn up to close the bottle. Fig. 2 is a corresponding view with the stopper pushed in. Fig. 3 is a modification in the construction of the stopper.

A represents the bottle, of any suitable construction. B is the head-piece or plug, of metal, either in two parts, to clamp the rubber disk C between them, or made solid with a circumferential groove, into which the eye in the disk fits by being drawn over the upper smaller portion of the head.

D represents the spring guide-stem and grasping-loop, made of comparatively light wire. As represented, this wire is bent to form two nearly parallel stems, a, united at their upper ends by the portion b, and bent in at their lower ends and secured in any suitable manner to the plug B, as in Figs. 1 and 2.

The stems a are bent outward about halfway of their length to form the curved shoulders c, and the upper portion, b, is projected beyond the line of the stems by similar shoulders d. rIhe distance apart of the stems a is such that when inserted in the neck of the bottle the shoulders c bind slightly against the neck, and thus prevent the loop from rattling, and at the same time when the stopper is forced down, as in Fig. 2, so as to open the bottle, the stopper is held from returning or slipping back as the bottle is inverted.

Instead of having the lower ends of the loop enter the head B, they may be connected by solder to a short stem, f, Fig. 3, which stem is riveted or screwed into the head.

I am aware that spring grasping-loops have been employed in connection with suspended Stoppers, as shown in Patent No. 219,729, granted September 16, 1879, to C. G. Hutchinson, and in Patent No. 156,302, granted October 27, 1874, to J. B. Miller; but in both these cases the spring-loops had one or both ends free, and required heavier Wire to render them effective. My loop, on the contrary, has its ends rigidly fastened, thus producing a much more efficient spring and enabling me to use lighter wire.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim- The combination, with an internal bottlestopper, of the loop G, made of a continuous piece of wire with rigidly-fastened ends and provided with lateral curves or shoulders c and d, as and for the purpose specified.

Witness my hand this 2d day of October, A. D. 1879.

JOHN KLEE. Witnesses:

PATRICK H. GUNCKEL, GHAs. M. Pneu. 

